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In Reply to: 25 Sexiest Movie Moments posted by LWR on February 7, 2006 at 07:14:16:

My fave: 1.) Donald Sutherland & Julie Christie in Nic Roeg's Don't Look Now...married sex, but highly charged, erotic married sex.
2.) A very close second - Gong Li's seduction of Baotin Li in Zhang Yimou's Ju Dou...this bathing beauty gives her husband's peeping tom nephew more than an eyeful.

S'more sexy movie moments:
3.) John Cusack and Ione Skye in the back seat of Lloyd Dobbler's Chevy in Say Anything ("Are you trembling? I think you're trembling." Hell, yes.)
4.) The tavern/dinner seduction scene in Tom Jones - very funny and very sexy. Yummmm. The young Albert Finney was quite a tasty dish.
5.) Speaking of yummy...I loved it when Venetian aristrocrat Rufus Sewell literally swept courtesan Cathryn McCormack off her feet in Dangerous Beauty (a bodice ripper for smart people).

6.) How could E forget Ellin Barkin & Al Pacino up against the wall in Sea of Love - eros and thanatos get a little too close for comfort...Al isn't surewhether she's gonna love him or carve him.
7.) The Lady Eve - nobody ever played footsie so erotically as the totally smitten Barbara Stanwyck in pursuit of the endearlingly clueless Gary Stewart.
8.) A Man & A Woman - still erotic after all these years. Leave it to the French
I'll agree about Bull Durham, Body Heat & No Way Out. The list is about what you'd expect for "E".

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Roeg - dave c 21:32:31 02/09/06 (2)
Another Roeg film suggested...yes, that is very charged isn't it...
Nic Roeg was very good at showing sex scenes without going all Hollywood on us... you know she's on top head thrown back covered in designer sweat... and he managed to get fantastic sexual performances/portrayals (!!!) out of his wife Theresa Russell in several films.
I really like her explanation, in the Marilyn Monroe role, of the Theory of Relativity, to Einstein using toy trains and watches in Insignificance.
- "Charged", I'd say so. - Harmonia 23:18:41 02/09/06 (1)
  Nic Roeg understands how to capture eroticism on film, as opposed to just a bunch of naked limbs, boobs & bumms thrashing around.
  I always found it...interesting...that Roeg & Russell were married. (BTW, if I were a guy I would find Mrs. Roeg erm, hot.)
  Nice to find a fellow Roeg fan. A relatively small but fascinating list of films to his credit. Performance was one of the movies that twisted my head inside out waaaaay back in the day. It's still a favorite of mine despite its flaws.
  - Performance - dave c 01:08:23 02/10/06 (0)
    What a film. Even if received wisdom is that Roeg might have been the junior partner in its making, it certainly became his style afterwards.
    It turned round most of the cast and crew as well... or was that the drugs? Fox didn't make a film for years. Jagger took on the persona for years... kind if how Bowie took on the alien character from The Man Who Fell To Earth, not that they probably found it too difficult.
    Do you know the story of Theresa Russell following Roeg to LOndon after first meeting him, agoing to his office, walking in and taking her coat off whilst wearing just about nothing under it?
    And, yes, I have always found her... hot to say the least.
    She has always seemed very real unlike some pumped up slimmed down stars.
    
    Enough!!
Oh...and... - Harmonia 20:58:14 02/09/06 (0)
...I meant to say *Jimmy* Stewart above as the object of Barbara Stanwyck's lust, so as atonement I will add one more: Grace Kelly & Cary Grant and fireworks in To Catch a Thief. Sexy without even taking clothes off!

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